OZZFEST lineup to be announced tomorrow

Metalheads of the Northwest rejoice because details of this year’s Ozzfest are going to be revealed soon, very soon. According to an email release details are going to be made available on the festival’s Web site March 9 at 6 p.m. PST. Also, presale for the tickets will begin March 15 to ozzfest.com members. So if you want to get your tickets early be sure to sign up for a free membership to get your tix.

It will be interesting to find out who is going to be on the bill considering Ozzy lost his voice and nearly didn’t’ finish Black Sabbath’s set at last year’s show. The Prince of Darkness has seen better days and it is widely believed he won’t be on this year’s tour. That begs the question can it be Ozzfest without Ozzy?

Hopefully this year will see the return of the tour to The Gorge and not White River Amphitheatre. Although I am a fan of the Auburn venue I really don’t like all the traffic that comes along with it. Also, I’m not a big fan of paying nearly $100 for a concert ticket (which is what primo seats cost at last year’s fest), so hopefully they scale things down a bit for Ozzfest 11.

In other Ozzy-related metal-riffic news, Metallica will not only induct Black Sabbath into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, the Bay Area thrashers will also play a short set of Sabbath tunes at the induction ceremony. It will be cool to hear Metallica play “Sweet Leaf,” “Iron Man,” Paranoid” and other metal classics. As a lifelong Metallica fan I hope kicking out some Sabbath jams knocks some sense into Lars and the boys so their next record will sound more like “Master of Puppets” and less like “St. Anger.”